Chapter 17: The tournament

It wasn't long since that time I had helped Bardock train that the whole planet was excited over a large tournament. Newcomers to the tournament had to fight their way through the preliminaries and there were different tournaments for each rank but all could watch any tournament. Of course the preliminaries lasted for days but I managed to beat my way through those who stood against me and I was excited about seeing who was the best of the best. Bardock was his rank's champion and Raditz was not yet old enough to participate. On our way to the elite fighting arena Raditz seemed to be extremely excited and to my surprise Bardock as well.

"This is going to be so great! I cant wait to see this year's matches, I hope the Masked Elite entered this year!" he exclaimed. Bardock shook his head "Come on Raditz, you know the Masked Elite enters every year…" He said boredly. I had no idea what they were talking about and gave them a bit of a confused look. "Who's the Masked Elite?" I asked, Raditz looked at me as if I was insane.

"How can you not know who he is! Hes one of the most famous people on the planet! Have you been under a rock or something?" He asked. Bardock gave Raditz a look before looking on ahead "Raditz watch your mouth! You see Millina, nobody knows who this fighter really is but what makes him so famous is that he's powerful fighter and always gets into the final rounds of the elite tournament. Who knows? You might even get to fight him, but you'll probably lose." He said calmly. I smirked and crossed my arms "I do not know about that, but if I can I am going to beat him down and expose his true identity" I said visualizing myself in the tournament winning.

Later on at the arena I was told that our opponents would be kept secret until we actually met in the arena. It was rather large due to the amount of room saiyans actually need to have a good fight. I was kind of hoping that I would get to fight the Masked Elite in the first round and it made anticipation well up inside of me. I stepped onto the platform underneath the arena and it propelled me up to the fighting ground. The arena was domed around the fighting area so that the audience wouldn't get involved or hurt from the fights. I stared forward and couldn't believe who I was fighting in the first round.

A grin spread across my face when I saw the large bald man staring back at me completely dumbfounded at the discovery of who his opponent was. "I cant believe you're my opponent Millina! But nonetheless I wont lose to a woman" He chuckled and gave me a perverted grin "Don't worry, I wont spank you too hard…that is unless you want me to" He said crossing his arms. I wanted to kick his ass for saying that but kept myself looking calm and pointed to the armband, closing my eyes and smiling.

"Now, now you know I'm engaged, so don't be perverted or I'll be forced to humiliate you in front all these people. Please don't bring me to do that Nappa." I said giving a little laugh. Nappa snorted, crossed his arms giving me a defiant look when we were given the signal to start fighting before phasing behind me and attempting to throw his massive fist into my lower back. I quickly blocked the front of his fist with my palm and turned my head to give him a grin just before sending my leg to his midsection. Since he was stuck in my grasp he couldn't escape it and flew back fast before doing a backflip and skidding across the ground by his feet, using that same hand that had been caught to slow himself down.

From there he rushed me, trying to land any hit he possibly could on me and from that I could analyze his fighting style and the fact that he was slower than me in battle. I tried to humor him and the crowd into thinking that his speed was actually a challenge to me. We broke away from that struggle and I got ready for any possible attack that he could throw at me. He grinned and tried getting behind me again. I thought that he would try a physical attack again until I felt a terrible pain in my back from a ki blast and from there I could tell that he was just physically powerful. I stooped forward from the pain of it and he phased in front of me, his mouth still smoking through a slightly wicked grin.

He picked me up by the front of my armor and stared at me eye to eye, I could still feel that terrible pain from the attack when he chuckled. He threw me in a way where I spun around and then he did something that I couldn't believe he would do in a fight. The entire arena seemed to go silent except for the echo of his large palm colliding across my ass. I forgot about the pain and landed on my feet gracefully, my head slightly lowered and my hair just over my eyes. The whole crowd stayed silent.

"I told you not be perverted Nappa…you're not taking me seriously, and now I have to humiliate you." I said in an eerily calm voice that frightened him. I was pretty mad and embarrassed that he would do that in front of all those people and now I would get some payback. I didn't use my full speed, but it was enough to make him look like a weak idiot. I phased behind him and flicked him forward into the ground several yards. Before he could get up I had already had the heel of my boot digging into his back. He yelled in pain when I dug it in even deeper.

"Stop! Stop!" He yelled through the pain, and to everyone's surprise I did. I grabbed him by the front of his armor like he had done to me before but I had to hover above the ground to get him to his feet. "Hell hath no fury Nappa…I was going to make fight look good, but you went and had to make a fool of yourself. Just remember, you've brought this on yourself." I said throwing him so far that his head slammed into the side of the dome and knocked him out. I was declared the winner and walked back to my platform where I was lowered back down underneath the arena.

The other fighters looked at me in disbelief since they had seen the fight, I just shook my head "That's what happens when I'm underestimated, so I want a good fight from any of you that I fight. They seemed to stiffen up before chattering among themselves. I saw my comrades and stood with them, Raditz seemed to be most impressed. "Wow that guy was nothing compared to you! Youre definitely gonna win this thing!" Bardock was furious over the fact that Nappa had smacked my ass. "I'm gonna kill that guy…" Bardock mumbled in a sort of rage. I had to calm him down a bit and remind him of what I had just done to him in front of all those people.

Bardock walked off and was nowhere to be found for awhile, leaving me with Raditz. "Where did your dad go?" I asked. Raditz shrugged. "He always goes off on his own and disappears at these things, but he always finds me later" he replied. This got me suspiscious about the masked elite. I watched the other matches with Raditz to scope out my competition when I finally saw the infamous masked elite walked past me. I gave him a smirk looking him up and down.

When he passed me I finally said something. "So you are the masked elite, I hope we get to fight. I want to pull of the mask of yours." I said trying to psych him out. I merely heard a "Hmph! Don't be so sure you can…Miss Millina." He replied. The fact that he knew my name definitely got me wondering. Raditz gave us both a wide-eyed look without saying a word. I watched the masked elite's fight with great interest, observing that he was pretty fast and almost beat his opponent as easily as I had beaten Nappa. I couldn't help but to smile a bit "Looks like my fight with him will be an interesting one." I said to myself.

The rest of my fights grew gradually more difficult since I didn't have my anger fueling my power like in my first match with Nappa until I made it to the finals, where I knew who I would face. I cracked my knuckles in anticipation as I stepped onto the platform. By this time everybody in the arena knew who I was. The platform plummeted me up to the arena where I met the eyes of the infamous masked elite. If he was who I thought he was, psyching him out was going to be easy. I walked up to him slowly, standing just a few inches away from him. "You know you seem very familiar to me, I wonder who you really are under that mask." I said in a somewhat devious way.

"Well you're not going to find out." He said stepping back, I stepped closer.

"I only want to see the lower part of your face, not the entire thing."

"Too bad, lets fight."

"What have you got to hide besides your identity? No one else will really see but me. And not even I will see your face completely."

"Fine" I got even closer to him when he lifted his mask partway while covering his cheek with his hand. I smirked and laughed a little bit. "What are you hiding with your hand? Let me see" I said pulling his hand away in a struggle, revealing a scar. Once I saw it I pulled his mask down quickly so that no one in the crowd would see it and grinned. "Just who I thought you were. You really shouldn't keep those things from me you know, I always find them out eventually. I still want a good fight from you, do your best against me." I said, he nodded and got into fighting position. I stepped back and did as well, awaiting the signal to fight.

Once it was given we both rushed each other, he had grown in strength and speed since I last encountered him in a battle situation. He did a sweeping kick to my legs knocking me off my feet. I fell onto my back but used my momentum to jump back up and kick him in the face with both feet. He was knocked back before phasing away. I phased away as well. We both speared before the crowd, punches colliding with each other's faces at the same time. Each of us drew blood from that panting lightly. I could tell he had since he lifted his mask just slightly to wipe the blood away.

The crowd was eating up our battle cheering wildly though I could tell they were perplexed by the fact that we were carrying on a conversation in mid fight. I could tell he was still not as strong as me but he was still giving me a pretty good fight, refusing to give up and even using his tactical skill in battle to trip me up. What surprised me the most is when he knocked me to the ground and attempted to use the Heat Phalynx to finish me off. Luckily for me I dodged and flipped him into the wall. His feet touched down on it and he lept back toward me. We fought for a long time, exchanging upper advantage and blows, I figure we could have gone on forever like that if the time hadn't run out. It disappointed both of us as well as the entire crowd since everyone couldn't get enough of the fight.

After that I sort of became famous. People would come up to me and ask me to sign things as well as asking me who the masked elite is. I just shook my head and refused to reveal the information, then I would look at bardock and smile before kissing him. Luckily no one caught onto my fiance's secret, because I know that it would put an end to his fun in battle.